Dr. Barbara Thompson is the Phyllis Wattis Curator for the Arts of Africa and the Americas for the Cantor Arts Center. She oversses the collection of African, precolombian, and Native American Art. Prior to her arrival at Stanford, Dr. Thompson was with the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She organized ten exhibitions at the Hood, including "Black Womanhood: Icons, Images, and ideologies of the African Body." Dr. Thompson kindly and generously brought a wonderful collection of music from around the world which contains references to Vodou and Mami Wata, a deity which has been worshipped over many centuries and who is the center of an exhibition at Cantor Arts on the Stanford Campus.
Information about the exhibition of Mami Wata at Cantor Arts may be found at http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/mami_wata.html
Information about the exhibition on portraits of Vodou may be found at
Here is Dr. Thompson's playlist which may also be found at Artist / Track /
Jimi Hendrix / Voodoo Child Bembeya Jazz Nation / Mami Wata recorded Haitian vodou performance / Ogou Celia Cruz / Yemaya Hugh Masekela /Mami Wata Omar Sosa / Azul Yemayá Bembeya Jazz National / Mami Wata Talking Heads / Papa Legba Miles Davis / The Voodoo Sun
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